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Economists at War:
The Influence of the Practice of World War II and the Cold War on the
Culture of Economics.
Conference organized by the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and
Economics in collaboration with the Institutional History of Economics
Research Area of the European Association for Evolutionary Political
Economy.
Provisional Programme
Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
8:30- 9:00 Reception
9:00- 9:45 Andrew Pickering, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign--
World War II as a Discontinuity in the Social and Cyborg Sciences
9:45-10:30 Mary Morgan, University of Amsterdam and London School of
Economics-- Ideology and Tool-Based Economics in the Post-War Years
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Albert Jolink, Erasmus University Rotterdam--
The Travelling Salesman Returns from the War: Tjalling Koopmans and
Linear Programming
11:45-12:30 Francisco Louca, Technical University of Lisbon--
Prometheus Tired of War: Econometricians' Debates on the Role of
Planning and Economic Policies
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 Esther-Mirjam Sent, University of Notre Dame--
Military/Artificial Intelligence: Military Science Policy and Herbert A.
Simon
14:15-15:30 Judy Klein, Mary Baldwin College--
Gun Laying and Economic Policy: Post War Applications to the Theory
of Error-Actuated Automatic Control Systems
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:45 Robert Leonard, University of Quebec at Montreal--
Controlling Bodies, Freeing Minds: John Williams, Architect of RAND
Research
16:45-17:30 Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame--
RAND/OR: How Operations Research Put the Rigor in the Mortis
17:30-18:00 Concluding discussion
19:00 Dinner
Registration costs: DFL 100 or EURO 45 (registration + lunch), DFL 200 or
EURO 90 (registration + lunch + dinner), DFL 35 or EURO 15 (student
registration + lunch), DFL 135 or EURO 60 (student registration + lunch +
dinner).
Please send a message to Loes van Dijk at <[log in to unmask]> to
receive a registration form. She can also be reached by phone at
+31-10-4088967 and via fax at +31-10-4088979.
Further updates will be posted at:
http://www.eur.nl/fw/philecon/warkshop.html.
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